Elizabeth Warren lamented on 1/18/22, “all 50 Dems in the Senate profess to be behind the Voting Rights bill, but it’s just the Senate procedural rules that give McConnell a veto over what the majority of this nation voted for”. Ari Berman wrote, “The Filibuster continues to distort all notions of representative government. The 51 senators who supported the John Lewis bill originally, represent 44.2 million more Americans than the 48 senators who opposed it.” So, how big a bribe did Manchin & Sinema require to abandon their proposed Democratic principles? Most Dems who ultimately voted for Joe Biden, originally wanted a more progressive candidate such as Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, Buttigieg, Harris, O’Rourke. More voters than ever before in any presidential election voted for trusted Joe Biden, and WE want to go ‘Forward’, not regress to the racist, repressive past.
Kyrsten Sinema, D-AZ, is often mistaken or outright lying about things she says, such as her statement regarding the Filibuster being rooted in our Constitution. It is NOT! And regarding the latest GOP talking point, the kerfuffle about Dems trying to limit states’ rights, even Alexander Hamilton, in the Federalist Papers, stated that voting rules shouldn’t be left up to the individual states. There MUST be a federal standard! Voting rights are a baseline tenet of our democracy. Though significant progress has been made in reducing racial discrimination, clearly more progress & protections are necessary. Our latest Census proved that we have a more ethnically-diverse electorate than ever before. Black history (& her-story) in the U.S. is everyone’s history, as is Jewish, Latino, Asian, Italian, Polish, etc., and especially indigenous natives. In 21st-century America, our laws, liberties, safeguards & benefits must be applicable to protect & serve all Americans.
Trump was broadcast last week saying, “it’s important who counts the votes”, parroting Joseph Stalin, who proclaimed the same philosophy; both repressive leaders were NOT for counting the votes they didn’t like. We’re at a perilous crossroads for our Democracy, and I heard someone recently declare , “It’s always darkest just before it’s pitch black”. “The Republican Party, the once Grand Old Party of Lincoln, has wrapped itself in lies, propaganda, conspiracy theories and disinformation. By attacking the outcome of our elections, the GOP fails its basic responsibility to our democracy”, said U.S. Representive Jamie Raskin, D-MD. He also reminded us that, “Americans are unified not by one ethnicity, nor by one religion, but we ARE unified by one Constitution”.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Jan 31 2022
Unified by Constitution
Elizabeth Warren lamented on 1/18/22, “all 50 Dems in the Senate profess to be behind the Voting Rights bill, but it’s just the Senate procedural rules that give McConnell a veto over what the majority of this nation voted for”. Ari Berman wrote, “The Filibuster continues to distort all notions of representative government. The 51 senators who supported the John Lewis bill originally, represent 44.2 million more Americans than the 48 senators who opposed it.” So, how big a bribe did Manchin & Sinema require to abandon their proposed Democratic principles? Most Dems who ultimately voted for Joe Biden, originally wanted a more progressive candidate such as Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, Buttigieg, Harris, O’Rourke. More voters than ever before in any presidential election voted for trusted Joe Biden, and WE want to go ‘Forward’, not regress to the racist, repressive past.
Kyrsten Sinema, D-AZ, is often mistaken or outright lying about things she says, such as her statement regarding the Filibuster being rooted in our Constitution. It is NOT! And regarding the latest GOP talking point, the kerfuffle about Dems trying to limit states’ rights, even Alexander Hamilton, in the Federalist Papers, stated that voting rules shouldn’t be left up to the individual states. There MUST be a federal standard! Voting rights are a baseline tenet of our democracy. Though significant progress has been made in reducing racial discrimination, clearly more progress & protections are necessary. Our latest Census proved that we have a more ethnically-diverse electorate than ever before. Black history (& her-story) in the U.S. is everyone’s history, as is Jewish, Latino, Asian, Italian, Polish, etc., and especially indigenous natives. In 21st-century America, our laws, liberties, safeguards & benefits must be applicable to protect & serve all Americans.
Trump was broadcast last week saying, “it’s important who counts the votes”, parroting Joseph Stalin, who proclaimed the same philosophy; both repressive leaders were NOT for counting the votes they didn’t like. We’re at a perilous crossroads for our Democracy, and I heard someone recently declare , “It’s always darkest just before it’s pitch black”. “The Republican Party, the once Grand Old Party of Lincoln, has wrapped itself in lies, propaganda, conspiracy theories and disinformation. By attacking the outcome of our elections, the GOP fails its basic responsibility to our democracy”, said U.S. Representive Jamie Raskin, D-MD. He also reminded us that, “Americans are unified not by one ethnicity, nor by one religion, but we ARE unified by one Constitution”.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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